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Corpo celeste
France, 2011, 100 min.
Having returned to tradition-bound Reggio di Calabria after a decade in Switzerland, withdrawn 13-year-old Marta (Yle Vianello, perfect) finds her adolescent feelings of isolation enhanced by her strange surroundings. Rohrwacher’s naturalistic feature debut is emotionally honest and bracingly immedi... more
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Declaration of War
France, 2011, 100 min.
Taking a serious story about a couple whose baby is diagnosed with cancer, Donzelli turns expectations upside-down by using the jump cuts, musical numbers, bright color palette, and low-budget enthusiasm of the New Wave to fashion a delightful and moving gem.... more
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Goodbye First Love
France, 2011, 110 min.
Exploring themes of loss, the passage of time, and emotional unrest, Goodbye First Love begins with a passionate romance between 15-year-old Camille and Sullivan, a free-spirited older boy. But eight years after he left her for Argentina, what remains of their love? ... more
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Guilty
France, 2011, 101 min.
In 2001 Alain Marecaux (Philippe Torreton) and his wife are arrested as part of a child sex ring. His protestations of innocence count for nothing. This gripping true story show how his life is torn apart in a scandalous miscarriage of justice. ... more
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Holidays By the Sea
France, 2011, 77 min.
A tribute to Jacques Tati’s classic Mr. Hulot’s Holiday, this laugh-out-loud comedy offers a mix of skillful physical playing, judicious comic timing and absurd situations as it follows a cross-section of French types as their paths intersect during a weekend at the coast.... more
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Land of Oblivion
France, 2011, 115 min.
A powerful recreation of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster anchors the first half of Boganim’s timely drama. But it is in the second half, ten years later, that the profound and heartbreaking implications hit home for survivor Anya (Olga Kuylenko). ... more
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Let My People Go!
France, 2011, 86 min.
In Finland, a few days before Passover, a series of misunderstandings result in the breakup of a Frenchman and his hunky Finnish lover, sending the former reeling back to Paris and his dysfunctional family just in time for the Jewish holiday. An inspired marriage of camp and farce.... more
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Michel Petrucciani
France, 2011, 102 min.
Petrucciani was born with a crippling genetic disorder that prevented him from growing more than three feet tall. Yet he become one the greatest jazz pianists. A wonderful documentary portrait of a larger-than-life personality by Michael Radford (Il Postino).... more
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The Monk
France, 2011, 101 min.
A splendid 17th-century gothic period piece featuring Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) as a devoted monk whose piety is destroyed when a woman infiltrates his monastery, a minion from Satan disguised as a man. ... more
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On The Edge
France, 2011, 106 min.
In the demimonde of nocturnal Tangier, four street-smart young women struggle to escape their poverty turning tricks and pawning stolen valuables. Winner: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Taormina Film Festival.... more
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
France, 2011, 107 min.
Veteran Guediguian – Marseilles’s answer to Mike Leigh – delivers a potent, moving slice of life as an aging trade unionist and his wife try to come to terms with a traumatic home invasion – and the knowledge that they know the perpetrator.... more
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War of the Buttons
France, 2011, 99 min.
From the director of PSIFF hit "The Chorus" (2005) comes this adaptation of the classic 1912 novel by Louis Pergaud, revolving around opposing gangs of kids from two different country villages who engage in ongoing mock battles with each other. Gorgeously mounted and superbly directed, this engros... more
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